
Remember, Mr President, with great mic drops comes great responsibility.

Thread info Bookmark this thread Trash this thread. President Barack Obamas mic drop at the 2016 White House Correspondents. DU Home » Latest Threads » Forums & Groups » Main » General Discussion (Forum) » Obama mic drop. Some people who used it claimed they lost their jobs as a result, and Google had to sheepishly withdraw the prank. A mic drop is the gesture of intentionally dropping ones microphone at the end of a. Just look at Google’s April fool this year – a gif of a mic-dropping Minion that, when deployed in Gmail, blocked all replies from the recipient. However, Obama should remember to exercise caution, for the mic drop has been known to backfire. In April 2012, during an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the US president concluded a Slow Jam the News segment not by dropping the mic, but by sort of prissily flinging it to the ground, much in the way a child would if they saw a wasp on their ice-cream. This meme was created following a leak of documents by ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, which exposed the NSA’s secret surveillance program. Keith Ablow accused Michelle Obama of being overweight on Tuesday Ablow was taking part in a debate on the Outnumbered show about the first ladys ongoing. Saturday’s mic drop, however, was a vast improvement on the real Obama’s previous efforts.

Realistically, it was only a matter of time before the real-life Obama caught up with his make-believe counterparts. Key & Peele sketches have depicted Obama dropping the mic, as has Saturday Night Live and, in January of this year, YouTubers the Gregory Brothers songified Obama’s state of the union address and uploaded the results as Obama Mic Drop: 1999. Interestingly, fictional Barack Obama is an inveterate mic-dropper.
